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Monthly Archives: July 2017

The number of LGBT+ venues in London has fallen by 58% from 125 to 53 since 2006. Council planners have been urged to help save LGBT+ venues by the London mayor’s night tsar. Amy Lamé used an event at City Hall for Planning Out, an

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anti-equality activists have submitted 8,500 signatures in an attempt to qualify for a ballot measure in Anchorage, Alaska, aimed at gutting protections for transgender residents and visitors in the city’s non-discrimination ordinance. The city clerk must verify that at least 5,753 signatures are from registered Anchorage

New medical reforms benefiting trans people have also been introduced. The British government has eased its blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men. Under new policy in the U.K., gay and bisexual men will now be allowed to donate blood three months

Your beloved asked. And you said “yes.” That’s all it took: so simple, yet so momentous and now you’re getting married. That’s nothing new these days; LGBT couples have weddings all the time, so how do you make yours special? With the new book “Equally

Australia Post distributed the flyers to homes in St Kilda and Shepparton. Australia Post unwittingly delivered anti-gay flyers with Nazi imagery to homes in Victoria, before realising what was inside the envelopes and urgently pulling the delivery. The flyer, titled The Death Of Reason…and the

Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday arrested 27 men on suspicion of being gay, a criminal offense in the Muslim-majority country, and plan to charge them with drug possession, an official said Friday. A commander of the Rapid Action Battalion, an elite police unit that made

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – The fight over a controversial law that put North Carolina in the national spotlight for months may not be over. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of North Carolina and Lambda Legal are set to discuss new court action Friday against

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Marching through the streets of East Timor’s capital Dili with a rainbow flag in his hand, Natalino Guterres was overwhelmed with emotion, reminding him of how he felt 15 years ago when he saw the Timorese flag raised for

Several House Republicans are working behind the scenes to revive a failed effort to bar the Pentagon from funding gender reassignment surgeries for troops. A mix of GOP defense hawks and conservatives are urging Speaker Paul Ryan and his team to use a procedural trick

Another documented gender based hate crime against a lesbian woman who lives openly gay, marks a rise in the number of attacks against homosexuals in Liberia. In this new case, the woman, who has asked not be named, was allegedly attacked because her neighbors are